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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...flow of lending to consumers and businesses, members of Congress are loath to hand over the rest of the money without guarantees of greater oversight and transparency. And so Senate Democratic leaders are struggling to prevent their members from passing a Resolution of Disapproval of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, which would prevent the second half of the emergency fund from flowing to the Treasury Department in the next two weeks. (See a bailout report card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Urges Congress Not to Block the Bailout | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

...leadership development, citizen service, and racial, ethnic and religious reconciliation." Clinton described her husband's Global Initiative, part of his foundation, as a "pass-through" that funnels money from wealthy donors to development and aid projects around the world, whose work includes providing AIDS drugs and poverty and hunger relief. (See pictures of Bill Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Blip in Hillary Clinton's Senate Lovefest: Bill's Donations | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

After two years on the campaign trail, during which he tried to relate to the concerns of small-town life, Obama may find it a relief to return to his city roots. He did a decent job of fitting in at local diners and Tastee Freezes. But every so often, the city boy would break loose. One November evening in 2007, Obama stood in a school gym in Grundy Center, Iowa (pop. 2,596), while a woman explained that she didn't think he could protect the country as well as a Republican. "Don't think that I care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Other Breakthrough: A Big-City President | 1/13/2009 | See Source »

...Italy, there was a mix of relief and anger. Labor unions, which struck as recently as last Wednesday, have virulently opposed the new consortium, which has trimmed the 20,000 work force by some 3,000, and cut pay and benefits to those employees who remain. Unions say that joining up with Air France is essentially the death knell for the Italian carrier. More labor unrest is expected. But many ordinary Italians will finally be satisfied that an apparently viable solution had been found to avoid more public investment or outright failure of the national carrier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Air France-KLM Bought 25% of Alitalia | 1/12/2009 | See Source »

...their homes to be destroyed by Israeli forces there, moving farther inward. Some people stay with relatives or friends. Almost every one of the 80 apartments in my building complex is already accommodating more than one refugee family, as are most homes in the city, and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency shelters are overflowing with people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holding Out in Gaza: Waiting for the Israelis | 1/12/2009 | See Source »

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